Chinese views of childhood

XIII, 352 S. : Ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Inhalt: Acknowledgments -- Chinese Dynasties -- Foreword / C. John Sommerville -- Introduction / Anne Behnke Kinney -- 1. Dyed Silk: Han Notions of the Moral Development of Children / Anne Behnke Kinney -- 2. Famous Chinese Childhoods / Kenneth J. Dewoskin -- 3. Private Love and Public Duty: Images of Children in Early Chinese Art / Wu Hung -- 4. Filial Paragons and Spoiled Brats: A Glimpse of Medieval Chinese Children in the Shishuo xinyu / Richard B. Mather -- 5. Childhood Remembered: Parents and Children in China, 800 to 1700 / Pei-Yi Wu -- 6. From Birth to Birth: The Growing Body in Chinese Medicine / Charlotte Furth -- 7. Infanticide and Dowry in Ming and Early Qing China / Ann Waltner -- 8. Children of the Dream: The Adolescent World in Cao Xueqin's Honglou meng / Lucien Miller -- 9. Relief Institutions for Children in Nineteenth-Century China / Angela Ki Che Leung -- 10. Remembering the Taste of Melons: Modern Chinese Stories of Childhood / Catherine E. Pease -- 11. Revolutionary Little Red Devils: The Social Psychology of Rebel Youth, 1966-1967 / Mark Lupher -- Contributors -- Index